I'm no smart guy but this sounds about right to me. Actually, from the ninth minute on it pretty much echoes what I've clumsily repeated on this blog: Collectivism, socialism and liberalism talk a good game, but it fails - or is at least reluctant - to assess the ramifications of its actions since the actual application of it can get financially and even psychologically messy. I have no issues with wanting to help my fellow man. I just don't believe a faceless bureaucrat has my interests at heart.
Only once we have a representative republic where a naturally talented branch of our species enters the political realm (people smarter than me in other words) will we truly be able to achieve efficient and fair governance - or at least one that is more so relative to what we've got.
We're at a stage now where civil servants see no issues with being rude with citizens and real estate agents I hear on the radio with little grasp of our intellectual heritage running for office.
Not good. How can I take such a person seriously? I'm left to question their motives. And these are the people who will carry the torch of our reflexive collectivist tendencies? I don't think so.
We cling on to ideas of collectivism, if I understand them correctly, because we're hard wired to think this way; it's a reflex. The idea of the individual; now that's radical. Which makes guys like Locke, Paine, Galiani, the Founding Fathers and a host of others downright revolutionary in ways we can't imagine:
Excellent video. Thought provoking and important.
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